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From: kms@uncecs.edu (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Dungeon on ab20 -- problems?
Summary: passageway makes dogleg!
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.022236.8705@uncecs.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 02:22:36 GMT
References: <91082.012358MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <91082.012358MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>, MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> I got Dungeon (the almost-original adventure game that the commercial
> Zork Trilogy came from) off of ab20 and have started playing it, only
> to notice a curious thing: the topology is completely nonsensical.
> Generally, if you enter a room by going east, going east again brings
> you back to the first room, and so forth. Is it supposed to be like
> this, or do I have a copy with a subtly damaged map?
> 
> / Mark "Remixed for Common Household Appliances" Sachs - MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu \
> | DISCLAIMER? You can't POSSIBLY be serious, can you?         ||   //        ||
> |   "Doctor, may I speak with you in private?" "All right..." || \X/  AMIGA  ||
> \== "Have you got a DEATH WISH?!" -- Romana & the Doctor, _Warrior's Gate_ ===/


Consider the following possibility.  You go north to leave a
room.  You expect to get back by going south, but there is no
south exit.  There is a west exit that does return you to
the original room.  How can this be?  It could be that your
passage way between the rooms makes a dogleg like this:

			  -------
                     -----|     |
                     |    -------
		     |
                  +-----+
                  |     |
                  +-----+

Now don't tell me that you assumed all walkways are 
straight, did you?  :-)


-- 
Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.bitnet
             Mars Hill College      kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
             Mars Hill, NC 28754    {some big name site}!mcnc!ecsvax!kms